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Connectivity

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The REST step found a large input data item whose size actual data size exceeds the supported size limit maximum data size li

DataStage job is not able to import the file of size 350MB using xml hierarchical stage. When we tried to import the file of lesser size the response from REST API call is Success. Where as in this case the REST API response is Fail. In this case ...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

To tighten security, disable Users from accessing their credentials in secrets, but allow access from flight service only

Currently their are some security holes in the product in that users can read out credentials from secrets. This can happen accidentally or deliberately through a malicious user. Consequence is that credentials stored can be exposed and used elsew...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 5 Delivered

Teradata Assets - Column analysed incorrectly as Primary Key

In Teradata the assets are defined as PRIMARY INDEX and UNIQUE PRIMARY INDEX. If a column is a PRIMARY INDEX, it is not a primary key until UNIQUE is mentioned.
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Support High Availablity for namenode in File Connector stage

As with most big data installations, we have a primary and a secondary namenode for the cluster. When the primary namenode fails over to the secondary namenode (or vice versa), a Big Integrate Data Stage job using the File Connector WebHDFS access...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

DataStage MQ Connector does not use the user Id and password while setting up the connection

We tried to set up a connection from DataStage using MQ Connector to the MQ server that only works when there is no password authetication configured at the MQ end. The connection fails when MQ team enabled force password authentication while Data...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

DataStage Amazon S3 Connector Enhancement

Allow users to control the netowrk path of S3 connectivity. Allows a user to control the network path that our connections into S3 follow. What we're looking for involves providing an alternate URL for S3 communication. As an example, when run via...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 4 Delivered

InfoSphere DataStage with MariaDB

We need information how to integrate MariaDB with InfoSphere Datastage as MariaDB is not supported officially by IBM. Please add Hla Oo into the email loop , He is the FCA officially contact support for this case = Hla.Oo@external.fcagroup.com
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

Connectivity for Oracle 19c (12.2.0.3)

Our Organization is updating all the oracle DB instances to 19c and the information server is unable to support the connection to 19c. We would like to know regarding the connectivity from Information server 11.7.1 to oracle 19c as our developers ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 13 Delivered

Greenplum connector in DataStage: CSV ipv TEXT bij external tables

When in a field (varchar/text) of the source query (postgres) a carriage return exists then we can not use the Greenplum connector of Datastage.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 7 Delivered

connection to MariaDB

I have the need to connect to MariaDB, so I configured ODBC.ini, but when I searched and tried several libs, the connection was not possible. When opening a call to IBM support, I was told that there is really no official support for MariaDB and I...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered